In an editorial published in may the respected publication argued that the holocene could simply be renamed the anthropocene .
在五月发表的社论中，这份权威刊物认为这仅仅是将全新世更名为人类世而已。
Doing so would eliminate the need to find a boundary layer it continued because the holocene has already been defined scientifically .
它还补充，这样则不必刻意去寻找边界层，因为全新世已有了科学的定义。
Many scientists feel that human interference in the way the earth works is now so great that the holocene is history and a truly separate anthropocene has dawned .
许多科学家感到人类对地球的影响巨大，全新世已经成为过去，一个真正独立的地质年代人类世已经开始。
It is that the further the earth system gets from the stable conditions of the holocene , the more likely it is to slip into a whole new state and change itself yet further .
这是因为在全新世稳定的条件下，地球系统越向前，它就越有可能进入一个全新的状态，并且还会进一步改变。
To validate the anthropocene , all these changes will be measured against the range of variation in our current geological period -- the holocene epoch -- which began some 12000 years ago as earth emerged from the last ice age .
